(openPR) - Dallas, Texas—May 18, 2007 — PMForum, Inc. announced today that Paul Dinsmore, PMI Fellow and well known project management author and consultant based in Rio de Janeiro, has been named a global advisor to the company. Global advisors provide advice and guidance to the company’s editorial team on ways to better serve the world of professional project management. PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, one of the world’s most popular project management websites, and produces the popular monthly PM World Today eJournal.

According to PMForum Managing Editor David Pells, “Paul Dinsmore is one of the most widely recognized project management authorities in the Americas. He is very well known throughout Brazil and Latin America as a keynote speaker at project management conferences and seminars. He is also well known in North America, having been active in PMI for over 30 years. It is an honor to have him join our advisory team.”

Paul Dinsmore is President and principal consultant for Dinsmore Associates, an international project management and organizational change consultancy based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Paul is a globally recognized author, expert and authority on the subject of modern project management. A long time member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Paul has been honored with PMI’s Distinguished Contributions Award as well as the prestigious Fellow Award. He is one of the early PMPs -- Project Management Professionals (PMP number 129) certified by PMI. Paul has participated as a member of the PMI Standards (PMBOK) and Research Committees, is a former director of PMI’s Educational Foundation, and is founder and counselor of PMI Chapters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

Paul Dinsmore works as consultant and keynote speaker in Brazil and other countries in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a graduate in engineering from Texas Tech University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in the USA and Postgraduate in Management at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He is the author of 12 books published in Brazil, the United States, Japan and Korea. Among them: How to Become a Project Management Professional; Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management; Creating The Project Office – A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change, and the AMA Handbook of Project Management.

Other well known professional leaders who have recently become global advisors for PMForum include Russ Archibald in Mexico (PMI Fellow; PMI member #6); Martin Barnes, PhD, in the UK (APM Fellow, former chair of APM and IPMA, current President of APM); Gilles Caupin in France (IPMA Fellow, former Chair of IPMA & the French PM Association AFITEP); Adesh Jain in India (current Chair & Fellow of IPMA, President of PMA in New Delhi); Eric Jenett in the USA (Founder, Fellow & former Chair of PMI); Brian Kooyman in Australia (Fellow & Past President of AIPM); Harvey Levine in the USA (Fellow & Past Chair of PMI); Louis Mercken in Belgium (former Chair of PMI); Peter Morris, PhD, in the UK (APM Fellow, former Chair of APM and IPMA);Marcio Prieto in Brazil (Founder of PMI Brazil & PMI Sao Paulo); Hiroshi Tanaka in Japan (Former chair of JPMF, Founder & President of PMAJ); Professor Vladimir Voropajev in Russia (Founder & Fellow, Russian Project Management Association SOVNET); Max Wideman in Canada (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair); and Rebecca Winston in the USA (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair). The Company expects to announce the addition of other global advisors in the future. Additional information about PMForum’s Global Advisors can be found at www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.

PMForum, Inc. administers and operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first project management website and one of the world’s leading sources of project management news and information. PMForum also publishes the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading project management authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.

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